Instead, the website’s static HTML pages use JavaScript to make calls to the CMS’s APIs, and the CMS returns the content in a format that JavaScript can turn into a web page.

Many web archiving initiatives are still using crawlers built for the web of a quarter century ago and advances in video, social media walled gardens, dynamic page generation and the mobile web ...

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